Using Big Data to Drive Safe and Effective Medication Use in Older Adults Receiving Aged Care Services
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2024) | Viewed by 423
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geriatric pharmacoepidemiology/pharmacotherapy; dementia; quality use of medicines; medication safety; potentially inappropriate prescribing; health care utilisation outcomes; medication-related hospitalisation; aged care quality and safety
2. The Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA), South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
Interests: geriatric pharmacoepidemiology; dementia; quality use of medicines; medication safety; long-term care; comprehensive medication reviews; aged care quality and safety
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Despite the advances in pharmacotherapy and patient care, optimising medication use for older adults is increasingly complex and challenging for various reasons, including age-related pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes, multimorbidity and polypharmacy. There is often limited guidance for medication management for older adults with multiple health conditions (most clinical practice guidelines are disease-specific guidelines), and older individuals are at risk of drug interactions. This is particularly the case for older adults accessing aged care services, where frailty, cognitive impairment and complex medication regimens are common. Additionally, medication optimisation can be challenging in this population, as evidence for medication use and clinical practice guidelines is often derived from clinical trials in which individuals accessing aged care services are often underrepresented. Geriatric pharmacoepidemiological studies can narrow this gap by generating real-word evidence on medication utilisation, safety and effectiveness in older adults. Despite this, there is limited research on medication use in vulnerable older adults.
For this Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, we invite manuscripts investigating the safe and effective use of medications in older adults accessing aged care services, especially register-based longitudinal pharmacoepidemiological studies. Population-based drug utilisation studies among recipients of aged care services, studies investigating outcomes associated with specific medicines, variation in medication use at care transitions (e.g., before and after entry to long-term care, dementia diagnosis, hospitalisation) and interventions to enhance medication use in people accessing aged care services are also encouraged.
Dr. Tesfahun Eshetie
Dr. Janet K. Sluggett
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- geriatric pharmacoepidemiology
- register-based, longitudinal studies
- aged care
- long-term care
- quality use of medicines
- medication safety
- potentially inapprorpiate prescribing
- low-value prescibing
- polypharmacy
- deprescribing
- frailty
- dementia
